My Prom Date

V

We walked into the boutique hand in hand.

A middle aged woman approached us.

"Hello, welcome to La Bella." She said smiling. "Is there anything I could help you with?"

"Yes please, we are looking for two prom dresses." Terrance said.

"Oh, prom season." She said dreamily while putting her hands together, her perfect white smile enlarging. "Do you want to look around? Or give me something specific, like a style or color?" She asked.

"I like long dresses, and I'm open to all colors." I said.

"Okay, you can look around and I'll pull some things out for you to see." She said. "Mr. Boyfriend, you can as well."

"Ok." Terrance replied smirking at me.

"Nothing inappropriate Terrance." I warned

"Yeah yeah." He waved me off.

Five minutes in and I had two pretty dresses slung over my arm. A maroon dress with a gold embellished top, and a one shoulder dark purple with silver embellishments.

Terrance walked to me with also two dresses. A gold and white dress, and a slick black dress.

"How many did you find?" He asked.

"Two"

The lady, whose name we learned to be Liane, approaches us with four dresses.

"You ready to try these on?" She asked.

"Not really." I admittedly

"Oh hush." She said as we walked into the changing room.

I slipped on the maroon dress first. And Liane zipped it up for me.

"What do you think?" She asked

"It's pretty, but not the one." I said

I opened the door to show Terrance.

"What do you think?" I asked him the familiar question.

"It's nice." He said. "do you like it?"

"Not that much."

"Next then" he said smiling.

*****
I'm having so much fun trying on the dresses with Terrance. We laughed, sang, and even danced a little.

"Okay this was one of my choices." Liane said slipping a royal blue dress off of the hanger.

"Oh it's gorgeous." I gasped.

It was a blue sleeveless long dress with an embellished silver bust.

"Liane, this is beautiful." I said as I slipped the silky material onto my shoulders.

She zipped me up and it fit like a glove.

I stepped out of the room and Terrance was on his phone.

I cleared my throat and he looked up quickly.

"Wow." He breathed. "You look..." He trailed off.

"I'm going to get this one." I said.

He merely nodded and she stared at me.

"Liane, can you please put this on my tab, I need to find one more." I said when I got out of the dress.

"Sure thing."

I had a few more dresses after that one.

I was down to my last two Terrance had picked for me to try.